diff --git a/lib/timers.js b/lib/timers.js
index b4c27fbeb9bf89..7b7fb4e04f52dc 100644
--- a/lib/timers.js
+++ b/lib/timers.js
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ TimerWrap.prototype[kOnTimeout] = function listOnTimeout(now) {
       continue;
     }
 
-    tryOnTimeout(timer, list);
+    tryOnTimeout(timer);
   }
 
   // If `L.peek(list)` returned nothing, the list was either empty or we have
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ TimerWrap.prototype[kOnTimeout] = function listOnTimeout(now) {
 
 // An optimization so that the try/finally only de-optimizes (since at least v8
 // 4.7) what is in this smaller function.
-function tryOnTimeout(timer, list) {
+function tryOnTimeout(timer) {
   timer._called = true;
   const timerAsyncId = (typeof timer[async_id_symbol] === 'number') ?
     timer[async_id_symbol] : null;